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Isolation, loneliness may raise death risk for elderly

29 March 2013, 18:50 PM

UPDATED 30 March 2013, 01:33 AM

Isolation, loneliness may raise death risk for elderly

Elderly people who are socially isolated and lonely may be at greater risk of early death, British researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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